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New software designs eco-friendly clothing that can reassemble into new items

Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress.
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Every 7x7 Binary Grid

Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel named finalists for 2025 Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year

Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
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Latent Lab

Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…
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Jack Forman, Rebecca Lin, and Lauren Ramlan among 2025 MIT MAD Design Fellows

Jack Forman, Rebecca Lin, and Lauren Ramlan have been named 2025 MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Design Fellows.
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RAISE

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
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Community Biotechnology

Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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Alum Irmandy Wicaksono selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: Materials science" for 2025

Professor Wicaksono's work focuses on smart textiles.
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SpaceShoe

With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
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BioLIG

Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
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AlterEgo

AlterEgo is a  non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Open Dance Lab: Digital Platform for Examining, Experimenting, and Evolving Intangible Cultural Data

We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
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Molecular Machines

Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Jordan and the jam_bot: A Human-AI Co-Created Live Music Performance

On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
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Generic Pan Tilt: Open Source Motion Control Platform for Entertainment and Research

We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
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Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances

This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
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Analogia

Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
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Personal Robots Researchers win Best Paper Award at RESPECT 2025

Raechel Walker and Cynthia Breazeal awarded Best Paper at RESPECT 2025 for work linking data science, youth organizing, and education.
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Design + Education: an interview with Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli shares her perspective on design as a deeply educational and social practice.
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MemPal: Wearable Memory Assistant for Aging Population

We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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Radical Atoms Exhibition at the MIT Museum

Radical Atoms Exhibition at the MIT Museum.Tangible Media Group | MIT Media LabPhoto Credit: Anna Olivellahttps://mitmuseum.mit.e…
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Supporting mission-driven space innovation, for Earth and beyond

Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
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MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman on his award-winning desire to 'sketch for the future'

The ninth edition of the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards includes MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman.
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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The Deep Image of the City

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
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Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
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Alum Daniel Pillis wins Best Presentation at the Generative AI for Design Workshop 2025

This presentation explored the application of real time stable diffusion to improve the efficiency of virtual production workflows.
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MicroPET: Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
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HyperCubes: Learning computational concepts in Augmented Reality

HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…
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Luna: A moon on Earth

MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design + engineering
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TED: How to build in space for life on Earth

At TED2025, alum Ariel Ekblaw unveiled TESSERAE—self-assembling space habitats using magnetized tiles to build in microgravity.
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Weaving memory into textiles

For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
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Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
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Zach Lieberman receives Digital Art Award 2025

Zachary Lieberman receives 2025 Digital Art Award for his pioneering creative coding and innovation in new media art.
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Automatic Design of Personalized FPCB-Based Tactile Sensing Gloves

Tactile Sensing for AllResistive tactile sensing gloves have captured the interest of researchers spanning diverse domains, such as robotic…
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Deploying a practical solution to space debris

Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
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Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named

MIT MAD has established new professorships and appointed three MIT faculty to advance design education across disciplines.
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Gaze to the Stars in the news

A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
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Earth Mission Control (EMC)

Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
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Frisson

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body upInspirationThere’s a feeling that comes tingling down the spine in certain mo…
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Latent Lab: Legacy

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
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Black Forest

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…
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Computer-Aided Synthesis

An exploration of how  advances in deep learning and generative models can be used to help us synthesize our ideas.
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New platform lets anyone rapidly prototype large, sturdy interactive structures

The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics.
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Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
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Decentralized Social Systems

A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
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Code Next

Code Next : Cultural Resonation
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

ARS ELECTRONICA 2021Garden CAMBRIDGE
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
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Resilience Across Scales

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
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Legal Storytelling

"Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling," published by the Association for Computat…
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Data Activism Program

My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
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Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch (cUSBr-Patch) for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging

Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
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conformable Ultrasound Patch (cUSP) For Cavitation-Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

Ultrasound-induced transdermal drug delivery (sonophoresis) has long lingered in the by-lanes of academic and industrial research, and has …
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Fast Company's 2024 Next Big Things in Tech: Aurelia Institute

They were honored in the Small and Mighty: Fewer Than 100 Employees category.
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KnitworkVR: Dual-reality Experience through Distributed Sensor-Actuator Networks in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Wicaksono, I., Blanchard, L., Chin, S., Colon, C., and Paradiso, J., 2024. KnitworkVR: Dual-reality Experience through Distributed Sensor-Actuator Networks in the Living Knitwork Pavilion. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.